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Enrollment
671
Elementary
DISTRICT 456 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAINFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341314005612
Cedarbrook Elementary School
1049 CENTRAL AVE, PLAINFIELD, NJ 07060 · (908) 731-4280 · Union County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL671 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
464 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 48 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 39 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 115% larger than its 8th grade class (39).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
29.0%
NJ avg 53.1% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
20.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . +6.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.0% | 20.9% |
| 2023-24 | 25.9% | 14.7% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New Jersey's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cedarbrook Elementary School
Cedarbrook Elementary School's state test result (21.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedarbrook Elementary School this school | 671 | 69.2% | 21.0% |
| Senator Frank Lautenberg School PATERSON | 605 | 70.2% | 5.3% |
| Franklin Elementary School RAHWAY | 658 | 72.2% | 31.6% |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Complex PATERSON | 513 | 66.1% | 11.0% |
| School 21 PATERSON | 665 | 64.5% | 5.6% |
| West End School North Plainfield | 600 | 76.0% | 29.3% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cedarbrook Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Union County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #1,118 of 1,290 | #78 of 92 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #1,141 of 1,319 ▲ 45 | #75 of 93 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #1,119 of 1,319 ▲ 14 | #78 of 93 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 671 | #141 of 1,562 | #16 of 108 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #663 of 1,390 | #21 of 103 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.5% | #948 of 1,392 | #69 of 103 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.2% | #364 of 1,481 | #48 of 105 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.8% | #481 of 545 | #36 of 42 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
671
+6 (+1%) vs 2020
+32% since 1990-91, when it was 509
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 13.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 671 | 60 | 11.2:1 | 69% (464) |
| 2023-24 | 663 | 48 | 13.8:1 | 70% (461) |
| 2022-23 | 623 | 51 | 12.2:1 | 69% (432) |
| 2020-21 | 665 | 49 | 13.6:1 | 67% (445) |
| 2017-18 | 659 | 45 | 14.6:1 | 73% (483) |
| 2015-16 | 632 | 47 | 13.4:1 | 73% (461) |
| 2010-11 | 575 | 34 | 16.9:1 | 62% (359) |
| 2000-01 | 488 | 35 | 13.9:1 | 60% (293) |
| 1990-91 | 509 | 28 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedarbrook Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (659 to 671); teachers up 33% (45 to 60).
About Cedarbrook Elementary School
Cedarbrook Elementary School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in PLAINFIELD, New Jersey. Enrollment stands at 671 students, covering kindergarten through 8. It has 66% more students than the average for elementary schools in New Jersey (about 405).
Plainfield Public School District has 8,522 students in 15 schools, and Cedarbrook Elementary School is one of those schools.
Hispanic students are 69% of those enrolled at Cedarbrook Elementary School. Other reported shares: 28% Black. That compares with about 35% Hispanic among all Union County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 45%.
A staff of 60 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 11.2:1. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 69%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Union County is 52%.
Test results at Cedarbrook Elementary School are 7.3 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (21.0% actual, 28.3% predicted).
In the surrounding county, Union County, the median household earns about $103,202 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 39%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Cedarbrook Elementary School, Union County has 180 public schools.
Hubbard Middle School is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Cedarbrook Elementary School ranks 4th of 9 on average proficiency.
Cedarbrook Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Federal data show 665 students in 2020-21 and 671 in 2024-25, a difference of under 3%. Students per teacher dropped from 13.6 in 2020-21 to 11.2 in 2024-25.
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Union County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,290
Census ACS
Median income
$103,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
99,046 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Plainfield Public School District
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Charles and Anna Booker Elementary SchoolElementary · 816 students
- Hubbard Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
- Maxson Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Washington Community SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Dewitt D. Barlow Elementary SchoolElementary · 423 students
Other schools in PLAINFIELD
- Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- College Achieve Central Charter SchoolCombined · 1,572 students
- Charles and Anna Booker Elementary SchoolElementary · 816 students
- Hubbard Middle SchoolMiddle · 737 students
- Maxson Middle SchoolMiddle · 721 students
- Cresthaven Academy Charter SchoolElementary · 621 students
Nearby schools
- Hubbard Middle School0.5 mi · 737
- Plainfield High School0.5 mi · 2,077
- Cresthaven Academy Charter School0.6 mi · 621
- Evergreen Elementary School0.6 mi · 398
- Union County TEAMS Charter School0.7 mi · 304
- The Queen City Academy Charter School0.7 mi · 378
Frequently asked questions
About Cedarbrook Elementary SchoolHow large is Cedarbrook Elementary School?
Cedarbrook Elementary School enrolls approximately 671 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Cedarbrook Elementary School serve?
Cedarbrook Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Cedarbrook Elementary School?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at Cedarbrook Elementary School.
How diverse is Cedarbrook Elementary School?
Cedarbrook Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 69% Hispanic, 28% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Cedarbrook Elementary School?
Cedarbrook Elementary School is overseen by Plainfield Public School District in Union County.
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